Between 2009 and 2012, French banks granted more than 4 billion euro in loans to European producers of agrofuels, and have issued these companies stocks and bonds for a total amount of more than 3 billion euro according to new research from Friends of the Earth France and Oxfam France. The groups called on French …
Groups unite to call for Europe to cut its use of world’s land
A coalition of groups [1], including Friends of the Earth, Birdlife, Biofuelwatch, Compassion in World Farming and European Environment Bureau has united to call for European governments, and the EU as a whole, to reduce Europe’s land footprint – the amount of land we use each year for food, textiles, wood, biofuels etc [2]. Research …
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Problems of Europe’s appetite for land
Europe must urgently tackle its over-use of the world’s land, finds a new report from Friends of the Earth Europe, released today. [1] The report, ‘Hidden Impacts’, is based on newly available data and shed lights on Europe’s role as a major user of global land resources. Europe’s high consumption levels, and insatiable appetite for …
Hidden impacts: How Europe’s resource overconsumption promotes global land conflicts
Based on newly available data this report sheds lights on Europe’s role as a major user of global land resources. Europe’s high consumption levels, and insatiable appetite for meat, dairy, textiles and other products that require large areas of land, mean Europe’s ‘land footprint’ remains one of the largest in the world. The report finds …
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Biofuels drive land grabs, EU energy ministers warned
Cape Town/Brussels – Biofuels have driven nearly 300 large-scale land grabs worldwide, a new report by GRAIN reveals today [1], on the eve of a meeting of EU energy ministers to debate the future of biofuels in Europe. [2] EU targets have put Europe at the forefront of increasing global demand for environmentally and socially …
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Inaction as biofuels continue to grab land and pollute
Reforms to Europe’s rules on biofuels were top of the agenda at a meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels today. It was the first time ministers commented on proposals to limit the quantities of crop-based biofuels that can count towards EU renewable energy targets. [1] The policy was proposed by the European Commission last …
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